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Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings.

uOrd is offered paper mill for bonus.
Wayne's creamery is ready for busi-
ness.
Dixon county has a,G5i young ideas on
the shoot.
The Norfolk Odd Fellows have decided
to build n hall.
The Nebraska City News has been en-.
larged and now circulates largely on its
shape.
The Missouri Pacific extension is ex-
pccted in Nebraska City in about four
weeks.
Real estate transactions in Fremont
since the first of the year aggregate
1896, 179.
Burglars are enjoying the boom in
Fremont. Transactions are numerous
with small receipts.
MInden's new creamery will be ready
for business in thirty days. The capital
stock of s., 900 has been subscribed.
The electric light plant burned down
in Beatrice some months ago has been
rebuilt. The town frightened up in con-
sequence. -
Richard Frewen will sue the Dakota
Cattle company ut the next term of court
| in Dawes county, beginning May 30, for
| $25, 900 damages for.breach of contract.
The attorney general has decided that
the herd law was not suspended in Sioux
| county and stock owners are therefore
liable for all damage done by their cattle
| to farms.
The Elkhorn Valley extension has
reached Albion. Boone county. No regu-
lar trains will be run until the track is
laid through to Oakdale, which will take
about thirty days.
The Fremont TribaAe declares there ID
/ &>k in thn
gives color to the rumor that Truth ap
plies for divorce from Hammond on
the ground of willful desertion.
A ghastly aggregation of poles and
canvas and spare rib acrobats has folded
its tents and silently crawled into Z
financial cemetery in Nebraska City. A
lonely peanut husk and lemon peel marks
Its grave.
Palmyra has turned out another luna
tic. Frank f. Randall is reported men
tally decomposed. An overdose OF love
struck him in tender spot. he is fwen
ty-two years old and talks love to every
woman he meets. He's got 1t bad.
Conductor Elliott OF the Elkhorn Val
ley road, is to be presented with an EN-
blematic badge by admirers in RAPID
City as a souvenir of running the frs
train into the Hills metropolis last year
The badge is built Of Black Hills gold
with moss agate settings, and display
the Masonic and knighs Templar EN-
blems.
The Hungarian convict, Heraledsky
whose pardon IS sought by Influential
friends in the old world, is not entitled Z
sympathy or consideration unless he !
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

THE people of Yankton, Dakota, are
very enthusiastic over the proposed line
of road to be built from Omaha to fank-
ton, through Washington, Dodge, Cum
ing, Wayne and Cedar counties. 1t ap-
pears that those at the head OF this
enterprise mean business, and il proper
encouragement is offered, the road will
be built at once; 100000 are wanted
from Omaha and intermediate points.
1t is called the Omaha, Wayne u Yank-
ton railroad, and would give to
Omaha direct line to the north,
something greatly needed. The people OF
Yankton are enthusiastic on the subject,
as are also citizens of towns along the
proposed line. A meeting will be held in
Omaha on May 90, when committees
from each point will make their reports
as to amount of money that can be raised
Our citizens should give this matter theii
attention
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

OMAHA has nearly fifteen miles of
paved streets and further paving is in
progress. This is a very creditable show
ing rs the work of five years, and it is to
be SAID of large part of this paving that
1t has been we'll done. The city must
not halt in this particular, and it may be
suggested that future paving will have to
be done with even greater care than has
been exercised in the past. The increas-
ing use of the thoroughfares from the
growing traffic of the city explains why
this is necessary. The very best material
and the most thorough workmanship
will be found true economy IN all paving
hereafter laid.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13
The GOId-Snake Mines.


TerenO MunOz was about eighteen yeas
old. Her father was Mexican, and her
mother Commanche squaw. She had
straight black hair, black eyes, a good
figure, and good deal OF strength. She
was as as full Of superstition and belief in
ghosts and spirits rs an egg is full of
meat She was nice and lady-like and
she had curiously soft voice. When
she was sixteen. joaquin Costello fell in
love with her. He played the guitar op-
posite her window steadily for five
weeks, he smoked cigarritos in front of
the house while talking to her father, old
as her prospective husband. Now the last
person to expect that Terisita would OBJ.
ject to anything her father had arranged
| for her was old Pedro himself. When,
| then, he announced to her that she was
to look upon joaquin Costello as her
master for the future, she made II scene ana
there was what might pass for row in
| that cabin. OF conrse old Pedro stormed,
| and of course her mother sat on the clay
| floor in what might be called silent
misery, and finally Senorita Tereno won.
| She would OF be married to joaquin;
and as she would not, she was not.
| IerOno hau, among her otheI qucor
beliefs, a full confidence in the gold snake.
| This is the funniest superstition that you
can imagine. II you lind a species of
snake something like black-snakc, but
with yellow bars on the back, anywhere
down on the Mexican border, and then
YOU find where that snake lives. you can
find ledge of quartz containing free
gold. Tereno believed this, and she
knew where one Of the gold-snakes lived.
She kept the secret carefully-at least
until Henry Brown arrived there with his
team of mules, freighting over the south
ern trail. Red Head" as. Mr.. Brown
was called, was pronounced blonde.
lie met Tcreno, and Tereno met him,
and the two fell in love with each other.
that Mr.. Brown attempted to learn the
guitar, though he had no fingers fit for
the work, and had not the
least scintilla Of music in his
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13
Ir is not probable that the wish of the

IT is not probable that the wish of the
commissioner of the land offlce to have
the Maxwell land grant case reargued to
the supreme court will be complied with.
1t might be to very little purpose if 1t
were. But there are some statements
regarding the case in the communication
submitted by the acting commissioner to
the secretary of the interior which will
very greatly strengthen widespread
public belief that the grant as allowed Is
stupendous robbery of the people. The
supreme court is of course blameless in
the matter, though it has not escaped
criticism, the fault being in the made
quacy of the governments evidence to
prove fraud. 1t is now SAID that new and
material evidence has been discovered,
but 1t is to be feared it has been found
too late to be useful except as added
proof to the people that they have beer
robbed
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

THE crop reports from the northwest
are in the highest degree encouraging.
Seeding is completed, the date being earl
ier than usual, and all the conditions
more favorable than for several years.
The acreage in both Minnesota and
Dakota is larger than last year, and If
the season shall be propltious the crops
of those states will be materially in
creased. The situation in Iowa Is re.
ported exceptionally favorable. Alto
gether the present conditions are most
satisfactory, and the promise snch as to
reassure confidence in an enlarged pros
perity for the entire country.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

WILL railroads be built if a cast.iron
law says they shall only receive a COM
pensation that. while it will make n large
traffic road rich, will utterly rum a
weaker or ow.traffic roads" asks q news
paper which condemns the inter state
law In the first place there are none
other than ''large traffic" roads In this
part of the country. Two or three sys.
tens west Of the Mississippi river con.
troll every mile Of track. In the second
place cast.iron laws against railways be-
longed to the Iron age-certainly they are
unknown In this nineteenth century.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

WITHIN the last two weeks our tele-
graph columns have contained accounts
of disastrous fires. Invariably is it the
case that no sire company" was in the
place. In each of these towns scourgcd
by the remorsaless flames, q large num-
Der of buildings have been destroyed,
entailing loss representing a sum suf'
ficient to provide an effective fire de-
partment. Such company could, in all
probability, save very large proportion
OF the property destroyed, II engines
were at hand. The absence OF all facil-
tiles for extinguishing fires in small towns
and cities, is often responsible for great
loss. One of tho first duties of q
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13
Street Car Horses.

Rochester Post-Express: "The horses
of the street car company are pretty
good animals" said veteran driver last
evening, "and they receive pretty good
care. They don't look as we'll this spring
as they usually do at this time of the
year. You see, summer shoes were nut
on the horses in March and the company
got caught. We had lot Of slippery
weather after that, and it pulled the flesh
right off the horses. The company IS
pretty lucky with its horses, and doesn't
have to kill more than two or three
every year. have known years when
not more than one horse was killed. The
fact il, the health of the horse depends
altogether on tho kind of driver it has
1t ISN'T true that. pulling car kills q
horse. Now, have had horses that
looked better after had driven them
five years than they ever did before. II
man makes them yank car when 1t
starts it takes the flesh of them iD q
hurry. Now 1t doesn't make any differ
ence to me whether am on time or three
hours late, my horse gets his drink.
find horse will pull his car better II he
ism Z out of water"
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

proven insane. The crime for which he
is serving life sentence was the murder
of his wife III Colfax county in 1881. The
theory of lunacy was advanced at the
trial. but it failed to mitigate the bloody
character of the deed.
Major j. X. Hanson, representing the
company which proposes to build the
Omaha, Wayne X Gankton railroad, has
notified the committees of towns inter
ested that he will meet them in Omaha
on the 23d inst, to consider such propo-
sitions rs may be offered. Delegations
from Yankton, Harrington, Wayne and
other towns on the proposed line are eX.
pccted to be present and submit offers OF
aid. The people north are enthusiastic
on the subject of a direct line to Omaha
and will give it a liberal financial boost.
Black Hills papers have decided upon
the route of the b. 4 Nj. into that coun-
try. The road is an 'air line," of course,
but considerable brain power and nerve
tissue has been expended in surveying
the route from editorial back windows.
The road as pictured will cross the Elk
horn at Rushville, and then dodging the
corner of the reservation, skip along the
eastern foothills in Il line parallel to the
Elkhorn, crossing the Cheyenne near the
mouth of Lame Johnnie, then running q
little east by north until the valley OF
Rapid creek is reached, cross the creek
and come into the city on the north side.
This will make Rushville an important
| junction point, also Rapid City. 1t is
| said the junction where the line for the
west side of the Hills will start is to bt
located forty miles below Rushville.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13
Women Clerks Disappearing From
the DeDartmentS

Philadelphia Telegraph: 1t may not be
many years before a woman will
be rare sight in depart
ment. Slowly, but surely, they are being
got rid of under the civil service system.
They are not now seen walking arm in
arm through the treasury corridors or
standing at the windows at noon time
with their cups of tea. 1t is not that they
are closer to their desks. They are not
there.
Since Secretary Manning first took the
treasury portfolio, and the new Or
der of things was begun, nearly twelve
per cent of the women have gone, and
none have come in their places. When
a female clerk dies or gets married, re-
signs, or is dismissed requisition goes
to the civil service commission for man
to fill the vacancy. ! was asked why this
was-if it was true that women did not
make as good clerks as men.
The reply was that some of them made
better clerks than did the men. The
trouble did not lie IN that. The fact is
they are hard to deal with. Most of them
depend upon the gallantry of the supe-
rior Off GERS, and are constantly asking
favors. many of them not hesitating or
seeming to think it improper ia ask high
officials-even as high as secretarles-to
make false statements or violate the law
in lheir interests. The most trouble is
when examining them for promotion.
Some have not hesitated to ask for list
Of the questions beforehand. SO persis-
tent are some that it reflects upon the
whole class, and the departments have
entered into systematic effort to get rid
of them
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

THE twelve Irish constables who re.
Signed their Office because they were
compelled to carry on evictions, and who
arrived in New York last week, an.
nounce their intention Of becoming citi.
zens of the United States. They will
learn better than to resign an office if
they are successful in being elected in
America
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

promise, as certainly tending to menop-
oily, for which the term trust is mis-.
leading euphenism. The American Cat
tie Trust association may prove to be
wholly innocent of any graspng and
selfish designs, but until it shall clearly
show that it is SO 1t will be suspected of
the same intent that has characterized
tie conduct of other organizations which
under the title of trusts" developed the
worst forms of MONOPOLY.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

+. THE San Francisco Journal Of Com.
n,erce has been examining the statistics
as to the opium trade, and its arithmetic
man has como to the conclusion that
during the past seven years the govern.
ment has been defrauded out of $23, ,315, :
67O. through the wholesale smuggling Of
the drug. Taking the Chinese popula-
tion as l25.OOO. and assuming that 100, 900
are opium smokers. it would follow that
each Chinese spent yearly S3S on SNUG
glod opium. 1t has been before re-
marked that for ways that are dark and
tricks that are vain. the heathen Chinee
d peculiar"
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

IT is hoped that the laboring men of
Omaha will adjust their differences, if
possible, at once. In the busy season 1t
is to be regretted that misunderstand-
ing between employer and employee
should stop the wheels of Improvement.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

UP to the hour of going to press MIR.
Moynihan had not been appointed chief
of police. This item will be a matter of
news until it grows to be chestnut, and
even then MIR. Moynihan will not haYe
been appointed chief of police.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

The advantages of collegiate educa-
ton cannot too often be presented to the
young men of our country. w. F.
Hutchlns, graduate of Yale, has been
rendered a position in the Chicago base
ball club.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13
Dakota.

Incendaries are at work in Pierre.
Redtield offers $1,000 for q new court
house, if the county will give $4,000.
The territorial railway commission is
going through the motion of regulation
in Fargo.
The latest evidence of civilized life in
burglars.
The winds of Saturday and Sunday did
considerable damage to crops IN the vi.
cinity of Aberdeen.
The number of settlers driven from the
Crow Creek reserve has been greatly
overstated. They number 500.
1t is SAID that some Elkwood, Cavalier
county, sharps got 800, 900 life insurance
recently on man who had been dead
twenty-One years.
Jerauld county farmers complain that
a small insect, similar to a potato bug. is
destroying the cottonwood groves in that
part of the territory.
The handsomest thing about the min
ing business in DeadwOod is the artistic
Typography of the stock certificate. 1t
does not diminish assessments, however.
Again comes the report that the peo-
pie who have long resided at old Fort
Pierre will be compelled to move. Not
because that portion of the reservation
is of any use or benefit to thu Indians,
but because, presumably, the govern
ment has learned, after the whites have
occupied the grounds for many years,
that they never did have right to settle
there A United States postoflice which
existed there for years has been discon.
tipued, which gives color to the report.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

HUGH Prince has brought suit against
the city Of Omaha for $500 damages.
He claims that he was injured bv falling
on defective sidewalk. Can it be that
Mike Meany has failed to discover the
'lOose planks.n
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

MADAME CHARLOTTE PoNNER, the
songstress, is suing the American Opera
company IN the superior court, New
York, for $4,000 due her rs salary, and
in addition, for 5000, as damage to her
reputation. The American Opera com.
pany certainly Is having hard struggle
for existence. The country seems to
have no music in its soul.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

MIR. RoTHACKER assailed Governor
Thayer because MIR. Rothacker was not
appointed as a member of the police
commission. At least the governor ex-
plains it that way, and those who read
the interview elsewhere, will naturally
draw the same conclusion. The Greek
adage referring to the milk in the cocoa.
nut is beautifully appropriate here.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

NEARLY all the newsp apers of the
country have published the story how
one Walter Ridgely, a travelling sales
man, resented an imposition sought to be
practiced upon him by two men who fer.
red him across the river near Tex
rkana, Ark, and that in a fight which
ensued he killed both of them; how sub
sequently ne was hunted down by the
brothers of these men, three in number,
and in a desperate night battle made
them bite the dust. himself being Sc
verely wounded, and how IN all this
most tragic business he had exhibited
unexampled courage and nerve. The
story first appeared in st. Louis paper
as an ordinary dispatch, but was after
wards elaborated and illustrated in the
same journal, and from that widely re-
produced. 1t received editorial atten-
ton in quarters where material for such
attention is not usually lacking. Several
papers sent down special correspondents
and in other ways sought to secure addi-
tional details. 1t was the foremost sensa.
ton of the year. The drummers of the
country were touched by the heroism of
their comrade, and in Chicago and else
where started benefit subscription funds.
Had there been hero Rldgely would
have been made rich man. But happily
or unhappily there was not, and after an
unprecedented rum" in the language
of the show bills, of more than
two weeks, it is proved that
the whole story was hoax, the
invention of the st. Louis papers Texar-
kama correspondent, one w. b. Werks
| That he did his work we'll goes without
saying, but it is questionable if the per-
formance is one to be proud Of. Evil
IDENTIFY, however, there is valuable journ-
alistic material in Werks if it can be
given the right direction. But he can
not hope for any favor from several man.
aging editors who are kicking themselves
for their easy gullibility and the gener-
GUS outlay it has cost their papers.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

"a wIrHERING blast of tory rage" is
the way the opposition party puts 1t
when speaking of home rule debate in
the house of commons IN London. In
Nebraska they say, "the gentleman from
Nemaha made commodious ass of him
self -
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

IT seems to be ime-honored political
theory that no Office is too small to be
despised. From the scramble in Omaha
just now. there can be no doubt of tho
truth of the proposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

IT must be borne in mind that both
Omaha and Lincoln have base ball clubs.
Whether they can play ball is left for a
kind and discriminating public to deter
Ynino
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

UFO. Is. IISUTICK.
7th day of May, 1857.
N. =. FELL,
fSEAL.l Notary Public.
Geo. b. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn,
deposes and says that he is secretary of The
average daily circulation OF the Daily Bee for
the month of May, 1856, Il, ,439 copies; for June,
1886, 12.29s copies; for July 1886, copies;
for August, 1885, 12,464 copies; for Septem-
Der, 1886, 1859 copies; for October 1899, ",
copies; for December, 1886, 1887 copies; for
January, 1887. 1926 copies; for February.
1887, 14,l9o copies; for March, 1887, 14,4OO
copies; for April, 1887, l4,3l6 copies.
GEO. B. TZsCHUCK.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th
day of May, A. d., 1887.
SEAL. Mp. FELL Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

BISMARCK has had an editor sent to
prison for one month for libeling the
political character of the prince. A po-
litical character does not amount to much
in Berlin
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

AFTER passing the winter with the dis
solute lobby at Lincoln, how could Will
Gurley prosecute roustabouts and bum
mers for debauchery and disturbance of
the peace? Mr.. Gurley need not expect
to be appointed assistant city attorney.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

During the nine months ending with
last March, 1855 building permits were
issued, representing an estimated cost of
about si,OOb,OOO. This gratifying show
ing will probably be equalled in the sue.
ceeding nine months in the number of
buildings authorized to be erected, il not
in the cost they shall represent. The
present year will certainly by far exceed
any previous year in the extent and cost
of building in Omaha, and there
is every reason to believe that
the succeeding year will not fall behind
it. There is still demand here for COM
modious business blocks, and investment
in such buildings, having the modern
appliances and conveniences, is assured
of liberal returns. The rapidly expanding
trade of the city demands ampler facili-
ties, which should, and doubtless will,
attract great deal of capital to build
ing during the next few years for busi-
ness purposes. There is certain and
permanent profit in such investment in
Omaha. Meanwhile residence building
Is rapidly increasing in every quarter OF
the city, many of these additions 10 the
| clty's homes being of the most attractive
kind architecturally and representing a
generous expenditure. Solidity in the
| business quarter and beauty and ele-
| gance in the residence portions are the
present tendency. A still urgent want is
larger number of houses for people
who cannot build their homes, and which
will rent at from $40 to $40 month.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

GENERAL KErFER said he would make
a speech and he spoke. He escaped un-
Scathed,
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

ENCOURAGING reports of copious rain
throughout the state reach us. This i!
gratifying.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

IT is though unless the commission
closes the Washington monument pretty
soon. relic hunters will have it all carried
aWav
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

Mr.. CoNNELL's annual report shows
better than newspaper praise that he has
proven faithful official.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

WHILE Mayor Broatch Is out of the
city, it hoped there will be no more
alleged interviews.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

THERE is a cry calling for the organi-
zation of the fire and police commission.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

THE eighth street viaduct must be
built. 1t is needed. and has been prom.
ised,
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13

L. p. QUICK, of Lincoln, IS dead. He
was prominent in many ways.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13
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